A modern, beautiful building, inspired by Hogwarts. They have an awesome crepe and ice cream bar, and a great salad/sandwich bar where you can get grilled sandwich. I'd also say it has the best breakfast options, with good hashbrowns and breakfast burritos.
But that's where the positives end. The Village Dining Hall offers the lowest quality food of all the dining hall. The food is bland, and apart from the vegan bar(which by the way, is low quality) few vegetarian options are offered. On the other hand, the other two dining halls give you warm food and give tofu and vegetarian meat substitutions. UVDH's biggest failure is probably the flexitarian bar. It's supposed to only have protein as an accent, not the main focus but in reality its "flexing the nonvegetarian." The main dishes are meat ones and the only vegetarian ones are plain vegetables.
As a brand new dorm with a lot of stations, University Village Dining Hall has a lot of potential which it unfortunately doesn't live up to. But it can take a major step by becoming more...
Read moreFood is definitely not good as parkside on most days. There are one or two days I found village to be worth visiting: Ramen, tuna poke bowl, or bulgogi beef. I tried to go to village every time when they offered ramen. The taste is not as good as Ramen Kenjo, and they only offer pulled pork instead of chashu, but the soup is very tasty, and you can basically get as many as you want. For other days, I would say parkside is a better choice. The food here at village is not...
Read moreAll of the food is super healthy and the layout is weird. There's one section (of real food) that's actually good, one section that's sort of okay, one section that looks good but is fake food, and then the dessert section is great (there's a person that will make you a crepe). The atmosphere seems nice but it can be hard to section off a part of the table if you're hoping to have a more private meal.
Oh and the chandeliers...
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